Jira Product Discovery as an initiatives board
November 06, 2025

Jira Product Discovery as an initiatives board

Mihail Iliev | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Jira Product Discovery

In my day-to-day activities, I utilize Jira Product Discovery in 2 ways: as a backlog of prioritized and unprioritized ideas, as well as a way to communicate the ideas/initiatives that are in motion. The first use case covers the process of generating ideas and documenting them for future discovery. The second use case is extremely useful when communicating with stakeholders across the org about the things in motion and their progress. The great integration between Jira Product Discovery, Jira and Confluence allows me to link the corresponding product requirements, UX flow and work items (epics, stories, tasks). Thus, the entire org is available to track progress, check details and stay on the same page. Jira Product Discovery allows you to use the predefined fields and benefit from tools like the effort/impact matrix, but it also gives you the flexibility to define custom fields and go beyond the one-size-fits-all solution. There are some limitations, though, e.g. timeline view of initiatives allows you to place a single entry per idea, which is not sufficient if you develop cross-platform solutions which may run at different paces. I believe this limitation is mainly there, as Atlassian offers dedicated tools for project management that are coming in the Premium tiers or as stand-alone solutions.

Pros

  • Priority communication
  • Aligning stakeholders
  • Idea backlog management

Cons

  • Timeline visualization (GANTT charts)
  • Automation (idea to work items generation can be improved)
  • Improved communication between the internal stakeholders
  • Reduced time to find related work items and track dependencies
The product was easy for me to adopt and was well received by all the stakeholders with whom I socialised it. The list of stakeholders includes C-level, engineers, designers, Product Managers, Growth managers, Ops teams.

Do you think Jira Product Discovery delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Jira Product Discovery's feature set?

Yes

Did Jira Product Discovery live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Jira Product Discovery go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Jira Product Discovery again?

Yes

Well-suited:
- Collecting a backlog of ideas from internal stakeholders.
- Linking the work items from various projects to a single idea/initiative
- Effort/Impact analysis
Less appropriate:
- Timeline visualizations e.g. GANTT charts

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